The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
OSCAR WILDEI am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
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Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
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To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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Hearts are made to be broken.
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I have nothing to declare except my genius.
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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
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With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?
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I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
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I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
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One should always be in love. That’s the reason one should never marry.
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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
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